ATHANDIWE SABA THE wealth gap among men and women in South Africa explodes the richer South Africans become with women making up only seven out of every 100 people who earn over R5m a year, tax statistics reveal. In fact, figures for the 2010 tax year, the latest available and compiled by the South African… Read More »

Jacques Pauw Malema could be charged with targeting the state’s authority and power. The Hawks are investigating charges of sedition and incitement of violence against former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. The case is being handled by senior prosecutors attached to the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) priority crimes litigation unit. City Press understands that… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE A LUCRATIVE government property lease awarded to a company owned by Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale and Parliament’s finance portfolio committee chairman Thaba Mufamadi will form part of a wide-ranging probe by the Special Investigating Unit into the Department of Water Affairs’ finances. A proclamation gazetted last week specifically orders that the… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW and ATHANDIWE SABA The SA Revenue Service (SARS) has obtained a R16 million judgment against former ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema. SARS is about to seize property and assets belonging to the controversial politician in Gauteng and Limpopo, Media24 Investigations understands. Malema did not oppose the application and SARS obtained the… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE THE CEO of one of South Africa’s biggest textbook companies and key ministerial advisor on the new school curriculum has penned more than 50 textbooks approved for use in the new school curriculum. Fathima Dada, the local CEO of publishing multinational Pearson, is a co-author on several readers, workbooks and teacher’s… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE AND ATHANDIWE SABA PRESSURE is mounting to change the rules that allows municipal managers to earn more than cabinet ministers. Unions hope that regulations in the works at the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs will rein in the huge pay packages of municipal managers and their deputies, which fall… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA MUNICIPAL bosses across South Africa got double-digit salary increases while clerks and street sweepers had to be satisfied with a 5.5% pay raise, Treasury data shows. Media24 Investigations compared the total budgeted salary packages of senior managers of the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 financial years, and found that increases… Read More »